• Prerequisites
• View a project’s dependencies
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Dependency paths
• Licenses
• Downloading the dependency list
  • In the UI
  • Using the API

Dependency list

Use the dependency list to review your project’s dependencies and key details about those dependencies, including their known vulnerabilities. It is a collection of dependencies in your project, including existing and new findings.

For an overview, see Project Dependency.

To see the dependency list, go to your project and select Security and Compliance > Dependency list.

This information is sometimes referred to as a Software Bill of Materials, SBOM, or BOM.

Prerequisites

To view your project’s dependencies, ensure you meet the following requirements:

• The Dependency Scanning or Container Scanning CI job must be configured for your project.
• Your project uses at least one of the languages and package managers supported by Gemnasium.
• A successful pipeline was run on the default branch. You should not change the default behavior of allowing the application security jobs to fail.

View a project’s dependencies

GitLab displays dependencies with the following information:

Displayed dependencies are initially sorted by the severity of their known vulnerabilities, if any. They can also be sorted by name or by the packager that installed them.

Vulnerabilities

If a dependency has known vulnerabilities, view them by selecting the arrow next to the dependency’s name or the badge that indicates how many known vulnerabilities exist. For each vulnerability, its severity and description appears below it. To view more details of a vulnerability, select the vulnerability’s description. The vulnerability’s details page is opened.

Dependency paths

The dependency list shows the path between a dependency and a top-level dependency it’s connected to, if any. There are many possible paths connecting a transient dependency to top-level dependencies, but the user interface shows only one of the shortest paths.

Dependency paths are supported for the following package managers:

• NuGet
• Yarn 1.x
• sbt

Licenses

If the License Compliance CI job is configured, discovered licenses are displayed on this page.

Downloading the dependency list

You can download your project’s full list of dependencies and their details in JSON format.

In the UI

You can download your project’s list of dependencies and their details in JSON format by selecting the Export button. The dependency list only shows the results of the last successful pipeline to run on the default branch.

Using the API

You can download your project’s list of dependencies using the API. Note this only provides the dependencies identified by the Gemnasium family of analyzers and not any other of the GitLab dependency analyzers.